Education Week Feature

This year BYU Studies is again sponsoring classes at Campus Education Week, August 21–25, 2017, on BYU campus in Provo, Utah. Whether or not you are able to attend, we invite you to read the articles on which the presentations will be based.

In an April 2003 general conference address, Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles recounted an experience of receiving sudden inspiration on how to perform a certain surgery. The image that came midsurgery to the young surgeon in 1960 led to the repair of a previously inoperable valve defect in the heart of a Latter-day Saint stake patriarch. This article documents the circumstances surrounding the surgery, describes the operative technique (because Nelson never published a report of the operation), places the surgery in its proper medical and historical context, and briefly recounts how surgical techniques have advanced since 1960.

Below is a list of BYU Studies authors who are presenting classes independently.